SOCIALIST ALLIANCE TRADE UNION SEMINAR
Saturday 11 May 2002
9.00am - 6.00pm
Victorian Trades Hall Council Chambers
Victoria Street, Carlton
Socialist Alliance invites union and community activists to participate in
a seminar on militant unionism and community solidarity. Conference themes:
- Politics into the Workplace: refugees, racism, sexism and war
- Political representation of Trade Unions: Party response and Union response
- Solidarity with the Community
For more details or to register your interest contact Riki on (03) 9387
7819 or 0400 877 819 or log onto www.socialist-alliance.org
TRADE UNION SEMINAR AGENDA
9.00 - 9.30 am Registration
9.30 - 11.00 am Politics in the Workplace
* Michele O'Neil - TCFUA
* Barbara Rogalla - former nurse at Woomera Detention Centre
* Alison Thorne - Coordinator of CPSU local organising committee at
Moorabbin Call Centre
11.00 - 11.30 am Break
11.30 - 1.00 pm Trade Unions and political
representation: Party response
* Sue Bull - Socialist Alliance
* Gurm Sekhon - Greens
* Chris Clarke - CPSU & ALP member (personal capacity)
1.00 - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 - 3.30 pm Trade Unions and political
representation: Union response
* Leigh Hubbard - VTHC
* Craig Johnston - AMWU
* Martin Kingham - CFMEU
3.30 - 4.00pm Break
4.00 - 5.30pm Making solidarity a reality
* Chris Spindler - Skilled Six
* Annie Delaney - FairWear
* Jill Polson - Australia Asia Worker Links
* Martin Kingham - Friends of the Construction Industry
5.30 - 6.00pm Close
Evening: Drinks at Trades Hall Bar
WHO ARE THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE?
NEARLY 2000 workers, students and pensioners have joined the Socialist
Alliance since it was launched by eight socialist groups just 14 months
ago. The Socialist Alliance stood 15 candidates in the federal election
and ran senate tickets in six states. We have already contested elections
in South Australia and the Northern Territory, and we stood in the 2002
Moreland and Darebin council elections. We are a registered federal party
and the only socialist party registered in NSW. But Socialist Alliance is
much more. We played a big role in opposing Bush and Howard's war on
Afghanistan. We are backing the refugee campaign to the hilt. We have
branches across Melbourne, Geelong and interstate.
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